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Henry "Hank" Åkervall (August 24, 1937 – February 18, 2000) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman and Olympian.
Åkervall won a national title in 1962 with Michigan Tech. After graduating he played with Team Canada at the 1964 Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck, Austria.[1]
After his hockey career he coached the Lakehead Nor'Westers to an International Collegiate Hockey Association championship in 1967, was recreation director for Thunder Bay.[2][3][4]
Awards and honors
| Award | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| All-WCHA First Team | 1959–60 | |
| NCAA All-Tournament Second Team | 1960 | [5] |
| All-WCHA Second Team | 1960–61 | |
| All-WCHA First Team | 1961–62 | |
| AHCA West All-American | 1961–62 | |
| NCAA All-Tournament First Team | 1962 | [5] |
References
- ^ Hank Akervall Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Archived September 24, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [1] Injustice is finally corrected, TOM HAWTHORN, Globe and Mail, May 2, 2005
- ^ [2] Glory Once Eluded Them, but Life Has Still Been Kind, The Tyee
- ^ [3] LAKEHEAD HOCKEY LEGEND TO RECEIVE WORLD BRONZE MEDAL
- ^ a b "NCAA Frozen Four Records" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
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